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witch hunts: divine folly
Witch hunting. How can such lunacy have possessed humanity for the better part of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? It seems inconceivable, and yet, though the numbers have often been exaggerated, the facts themselves are not in doubt. The European … Continue reading
dark ages: maybe not that dark after all
It seems ironic that the Renaissance and later the Enlightenment should be the periods associated with the persecution of witches, a kind of phenomenon, a systematic cult that was invented out of thin air. it was the persecution of women, … Continue reading
fiddler on a hot church roof
Martin Luther is still creating controversy. Recently, about 800 statuettes of the 16th-century Protestant reformer popped up in the eastern German town of Wittenberg, where Luther first preached against practices of the Roman Catholic church almost five hundred years ago. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Johann Gottfried Schadow, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther, mary fulbrook, Ottmar Hoerl, Pope Alexander VI, pope innocent VIII, pope Julius II, Pope Leo X, Raphael, thirty years war, William James
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